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Re: Family Tree on Ebay! Surname BARGE
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 23 April 06 22:59 BST (UK) »
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Re: Family Tree on Ebay! Surname BARGE
« Reply #19 on: Monday 24 April 06 01:14 BST (UK) »
Hi,
If you go to the  general antique auctions in your area you'll probably find lots of old photo's and bibles etc up for sale.
My father is a an antique dealer ,  he used to own an antique shop( fine china etc - not family tree stuff) .He's retired now, but still goes to the auctions  to buy stuff  to do the occasional antique fair. It's sort of more of a hobby with him now.
There used to be always lots of  this type of thing in them  - boxes  and boxes of  very old photo's and family bibles which the boxes /lots  would go only for  just a couple of pence as nobody really wanted them . They came mostly from house clearances.

When I went back home for a holiday recently, my father showed me an old (1800's) family bible with names and the birth dates of each family member in it . He  had just bought it from one of the country auctions which  he goes to. He bought it for just a couple of pounds (I can't remember  exactly what he paid for it but I think it worked out to be only 1 or 2 pounds at the most) -  I think it came out of a box  of bits and pieces he bought which the whole Lot he won at  $10( pounds) maybe .

It also had an old photo of the  Lady who's family bible it was , it was stuck in-between the pages of the family bible with her name written on it - what  a find that would be to the family of this lady . He purchased it because the surname was the same as ours and thought she may be connected with us somehow .It's not our family though, at least I have found no evidence it is.

Anyway, try the local auctions in your area of interest  on a regular basis , it's amazing the stuff like  old photo's and family bibles that gets chucked out  in house clearances when someone dies . You never know one day you may come across something relevant to your family .The items  go for practically nothing at these general auctions, as most people who go to these general antique auctions  are going there for things like antique china and  antique furniture  and not  family bibles, photos and other such  family papers which is of no interest to many of  them. It's where a lot of  the dealers  buy their stuff from

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P.S. There is another one ebay too  with a handwritten  family tree - surname is  Toffee and William J Edwards

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VICTORIAN-Family-Bible-140-year-old-approx-C-1840S_W0QQitemZ6623910135QQcategoryZ269QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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